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- From: jtb@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Jo Blishen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: REMSH -- RSH (DONT LINK!)
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- Date: 13 Aug 92 08:47:57 GMT
- References: <NDIAYE.92Aug10173232@sol.cs.uni-sb.de> <1992Aug10.204809.6472@talon.ucs.orst.edu> <1992Aug11.232057.6184@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- In article <1992Aug11.232057.6184@donau.et.tudelft.nl>, jeanpaul@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (J.P.M. van der Jagt) writes:
- > Another GOOD solution is the one we use. Since we've only recently bought HPs
- > and all our users already had accounts on BSD-like machines like DECs and SUNs,
- > everyone had a default path that has /usr/ucb *before* /bin and /usr/bin and
- > /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin/X11.
- > On the HPs I just created a directory /usr/ucb and symlinked many BSD-like
- > programs to that dir, like rsh, ftp, vi, mail.
-
- We do something similar, but rather use /usr/local/bin as all our local
- binaries are kept separately on a different disk. That way you aren't
- making any modifications to /usr and you don't have to remember what
- non-standard things you did to make everything work after an OS upgrade.
- You just have to remember to mount the disk with the local binaries.
-
- Jo
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- Jo Blishen
- LFCS, Dept. of Computer Science Email: jtb@dcs.ed.ac.uk
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